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Gen. ScoLiA. 



Scolia (Dielis, Saussure) intrudens. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Blacky with the second and 

 third segments of the abdomen yellow. A transverse 

 yellow interrupted line on the vertex of the head above 

 the ocelli, a narrow yellow line behind the eyes, and 

 a line on the lower part of their inner margin ; the 

 mandibles, and antennee beneath, ferruginous. The 

 mesothorax thinly covered with ferruginous hair; thei 

 tibiae and tarsi ferruginous, the latter most brightly so ; 

 the calcaria pale testaceous ; the wings fusco-ferruginous ; 

 the nervures ferruginous ; two submarginal cells, and two 

 recurrent nervures. Abdomen: the apical margin of the 

 first segment narrowly, and the two following segments 

 entirely yellow, on each side of these segments a short 

 narrow ferruginous line, the third segment has also 

 a faint minute ferruginous spot a little within the outer 

 line ; the apical segment longitudinally striated ; beneath, 

 shining black, the margins of the segments fringed with 

 white hairs. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



Fam. POMPILID^. 



Gen. PoMPiLus. 



1. Potnpilus velox. 



Male. Length 5j lines. Black, with yellow wings. 

 Head : the sides of the clypeus, and of the face and 

 labrum, yellow ; tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; the 

 head has a thin griseous pubescence, with some longer 

 hairs on the cheeks. Thorax : rounded anteriorly, the 

 posterior margin of the prothorax yellow and angulated ; 

 the metathorax truncate : the entire insect has a cover- 

 ing of cinerous pubescence, which is most dense on the 

 underside of the thorax ; the anterior tibias and tarsi fer- 

 ruginous; the second, third, and fourth joints of the in- 

 termediate tarsi ferruginous, with their tips black; the 

 spines at the apex of the tibiae pale testaceous; wings 



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